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Marisa Mission; Brian Robinson; Paul Beach; Nick Lee; Harold Hinds – Bellwether, 2023
Across the country, career pathways programs are a popular bipartisan tool for addressing state workforce shortages and ensuring students graduate high school with workforce-ready skills. Delaware Pathways is one such example, formally established by executive order in 2016 by then-Delaware Gov. Jack Markell. The program consists of state-approved…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Work Experience Programs, Career Development, State Legislation
Will G. Artis Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Career academies provide high school students with an opportunity to complete high school coursework while deeply exploring a potential career field concentration. Such academy models aim to improve high graduation rates and college and career readiness of students. However, the implementation of a career academy program can be challenging and may…
Descriptors: Career Academies, High Schools, Underachievement, Program Implementation
Amanda Brantley – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Recent federal legislation mandates that college and career readiness be integrated into the curriculum for all high school students (National Center for Education Achievement, n.d.). To support economic growth, educated individuals must be available within an industry and local area (Harvey et al., 2019). Therefore, "[t]he essence of college…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Laura Rasmussen Foster; Jessie Stadd; Michelle Tolbert – Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2023
When aligned with career pathways and other education and training programs in the community, IET programs offered in prisons and jails enable participants to make significant progress toward their education and training goals that can be continued after release. This guide summarizes lessons learned from the IET in Corrections project and serves…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Career Pathways, Educational Objectives, Training Objectives
Lytal, Lydia – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Teachers have had to use standards to teach with since the 1980's. The CCRS has made a significant shift in how standards are written and the expectations of students in learning them. With the three-dimensional design, teachers are required to change their pedagogy in order to implement the standards with fidelity. That requires training,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Experience, Program Implementation, College Readiness
Elizabeth Marie Kaufman – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This mixed method study examined the implementation of teacher literacy practices into Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs and the impact on college and career readiness at a career center in a north suburban center in Illinois. Twenty-two educators were surveyed about implementation of literacy strategies, with six participating in an…
Descriptors: Career Centers, Vocational Education, College Readiness, Literacy Education
Mackenzie Jessip – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore educators' perceptions of the implementation of CTE in preparing students with the knowledge and skills necessary to seamlessly transition from high school to the workforce or higher education post-graduation. Framework: The California Career Technical Standards for Grades Seven…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Program Implementation, Skill Development, Career Readiness
Treskon, Louisa; Kusayeva, Yana; Walter, Johanna – MDRC, 2020
Bridge-to-college programs aim to help people complete high school and enroll in postsecondary education, two milestones that increase access to economic opportunity. These programs help students obtain their high school credentials while encouraging postsecondary transition and success. Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) in Green Bay,…
Descriptors: Equivalency Tests, High School Equivalency Programs, Transitional Programs, College Readiness
Olivia Weaver Pearson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Too few students are graduating from high school college and career-ready. For this dissertation, a qualitative design that included a data analysis was implemented to review a dual enrollment program and the impact of implementing various change ideas to increase enrollment of students in the program. The study was conducted in two phases. Phase…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Program Effectiveness, High School Students, Educational Needs
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Smith, Kevin G.; Lee, Laurie; Carr, Marsan; Weatherill, Andrew; Lancashire, Helen – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2020
This self-study guide provides state and local education agencies and schools with a tool to assess implementation of career readiness practices across a district or secondary school and to plan improvements. It is arranged by implementation areas that have been found to be important to career readiness efforts based on a review of the literature…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Secondary Schools, Secondary School Students, Program Implementation
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Hernández-Gantes, Victor M.; Fletcher, Edward C., Jr.; Keighobadi, Sasha – Journal of Research in Technical Careers, 2019
The purpose of this study was to explore how a career academy featuring an information technology (IT) theme approached the adoption of the model and the particular curricular focus. We used a case study design to explore the experiences of school personnel and community partners associated with the implementation of the career academy. We found…
Descriptors: Career Academies, Vocational Education, Program Implementation, Small Schools
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McClure-Brenchley, Kimberly J.; Picardo, Kristin; Overton-Healy, Julia – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2020
Learning outcomes can structure and enhance the undergraduate research experience, building skills such as critical thinking/problem solving, communication, and teamwork/collaboration. These skills often correspond to what employers desire in their recruitment of recent college graduates: students possess career competencies that result from…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Transfer of Training, Critical Thinking
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Brown, Melanie; Nomikoudis, Milton; Bouilheres, Frederique; Nkhoma, Clara; Akbari, Mohammadreza – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2022
Purpose: This article addresses the experience of academic developers and academic staff during the transition of assessment practices in an English-speaking international university campus in South East Asia. The project examined in the study was born out of the institutional strategy focused on producing graduates ready for employment.…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Performance Based Assessment, Educational Development, Employment Potential
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Chris Willis; Kristina N. LaVenia; Christy Galletta Horner – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2024
This study examines insights from Career and Technical Education (CTE) leaders that help to better inform the preparation of all school leaders. CTE leaders find themselves in the interesting position of being inside the PK-12 system but at the outside edge. This outsider within perspective not only gives CTE leaders a unique understanding of…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Principals, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training
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Fletcher, Edward C., Jr,; Warren, Nathalie Q.; Hernández-Gantes, Victor M. – Career and Technical Education Research, 2018
The purpose of this study was to uncover and describe the key components of a "distinguished" National Academy Foundation (NAF) information technology (IT) academy and the nature of implementation to prepare students to be college, career and future ready. Based on 77 semistructured interviews of stakeholders of the academy, we found the…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Lifelong Learning
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